Victorian Engagements with the Bible and Antiquity: The Shock of the Old

The Victorian Image of the Past is a groundbreaking book that explores how the study of classical antiquity and the Bible together formed an image of the past central to Victorian self-understanding.

This comprehensive volume, edited by renowned classicist Simon Goldhill and theologian Ruth Jackson Ravenhill, offers a rich and readable feast of specially commissioned essays that reveal the depth and complexity of Victorian thinking about the past.

With new discoveries about the deep past and new ways of thinking about humanity's place in history, this book provides a fundamental understanding of the Victorians and their reception of classics and the Bible.

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